Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust v Atwal [2018] EWHC 961 (QB) (27 April 2018)
This is an application for the committal of the defendant… for contempt of court. The application is brought by D… The allegation is that D pursued a fraudulent claim for damages for clinical negligence by grossly exaggerating the continuing effect of comparatively minor injuries, sustained as long ago as 2008, which were negligently treated at one of D’s hospitals. The injuries were fractures of two fingers and a laceration of the lower lip. Liability was always admitted. As soon as the claim was intimated in 2011, two years before proceedings were issued, D made a Part 36 offer of £30,000. The claim as pleaded in the schedule of loss and damage in November 2014 was for a total of £837,109, including very substantial claims for future loss of earnings and future care, based on the proposition that D was unable to work and was grossly incapacitated. (paragraph 1)
I find the following fourteen allegations of contempt proved… (paragraph 121)
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